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THE RURA1» NEW-YORKER 
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O UTCASTS.—The Hope Farm man 
comes into that class as this is 
written. I was in New York when 
Mother ’phoned that two of the children 
are “down” with scarlet fever. They 
were sick when I left, but the symptoms 
were not clear. It is the mild form, and 
with proper care will not be dangerous. 
We have been through it before with the 
first brood of four children, and we know 
what to do. A warm room has been fit¬ 
ted up in our old stone house and fhe chil¬ 
dren go into it with the nurse and stay 
there until the disease has worked through 
its course. I am not to go home until 
our house has been thoroughly fumigated. 
These precautions are right, and I think 
everyone should live up to them. The 
fact that the disease got at our children 
is evidence that some one has not done so, 
but has carried the disease from some 
house where it prevailed. I do not feel 
at all alarmed about the children. Mother 
knows what to do, and will not try any 
experiments or fooling. We have a good 
doctor, and his instructions will be car¬ 
ried out to the letter. During our former 
siege with this disease I was deluged with 
advice from people who claimed to know. 
Most of them denounced the doctors, and 
had some radical treatment of their own 
which they insisted we should use. Let 
me say right now that the Hope Farm 
man is somewhat old-fashioned about 
such things. I do not try any experi¬ 
ments with my children. When they 
have any disease which their mother 
knows she cannot handle with her simple 
remedies we take the advice of the old 
character in “The Child,” “send for old 
Doc. Greenway as quick as the Lord will 
let ye.” The “old Doc” has passed off 
our stage, but the younger one knows 
what to do and he takes charge of the 
case, and we do what he says. I know, 
of course, that this will not appeal to 
some of our people who do not believe in 
vaccination or “drugs” or doctors in gen¬ 
eral. I have no objection to their experi¬ 
menting with their children, or with them¬ 
selves, and I would leave them free to 
do so if they care to. As for me, I am 
old-fashioned, and when my folks are sick 
I call in a doctor in whom I have con¬ 
fidence, and tell him to act as general. 
As this scarlet fever goes on I will tell 
about the treatment. The most impor¬ 
tant point is for the adults to keep serene 
and good-natured and say “Happy days!” 
Music Teachers.—H ere is one of the 
most remarkable letters I have had yet: 
I understand this Hope Farm man is a 
very fine singer, and music teacher. I 
wonder if he was the young man who 
taught a singing school in our town 
about 30 year ago! j. k. ii. 
Not guilty! You certainly “do me 
proud” on that, but it was some other 
young man. I suppose this is evidence of 
how great a fire a small matter may kin¬ 
dle. Some years ago I told of my only 
unfortunate experience at coaching a 
man in singing. At college there was a 
German cook who could make a most 
remarkable apple pie. A cook may be a 
man, and he may desire to play the part 
of Romeo, and this one aspired to such 
distinction. So he came to me and of¬ 
fered a tempting bribe. After a violent 
struggle with the English language he 
gave me to understand that he wished to 
serenade a young woman who lived in 
town. He thought his broken English 
could be mended more easily in music 
than in speech. So, if I would teach him 
how to sing some appropriate lay he 
would give me two apple pies for each 
lesson. I was younger then, and the 
temptation was great, and I regret to 
say that I fell for it. He had his choice 
of Longfellow, “Stars of the Summer 
Night,” or Byron’s "Maid of Athens, 
Ere We Part,” and after some thought 
he selected the latter. We made his 
kitchen ring with melody for a time, and 
the pies were certainly fine. Raphael— 
for that was his name—finally went forth 
like a Romeo to conquer. But something 
went wrong with Juliet, for just as he 
got to “Maid of Athens, I am gone,” 
she poured a bucket of water on him. 
Honestly, I never could blame her, but 
Raphael went through life feeling that 
the music teacher had fooled him in some 
way. I think these facts will convince 
J. K. PI. that I could not have conducted 
a singing school with succeess. I do not 
know one note from another, and “sing¬ 
ing by ear,” when the ear is somewhat 
out of line, would hardly fit one for grand 
opera. However, if I had my way, every 
child would be taught to sing, and if pos¬ 
sible, play some musical instrument. I 
have learned that youth is the time for 
storing up treasures and resources for 
use in later and darker days. Happy 
thoughts, good nature, poetry and music 
are some of the treasures and resources 
which make the evening of life seem 
flooded with an electric light which rivals 
the sun. Probably the greatest of all is 
music. 
Books. —People are writing to name 
(he books they are reading this year. 
It is a fine list, and there is a genuine 
desire to obtain strong books T "hich will 
make the reader think. Such books are 
expensive. They must be, for the cost 
and risk of publishing them is great. 
There is some complaint that so few 
strong and interesting farm books are 
published. The thing most responsible 
for this is the fact that the land is 
flooded with bulletins and pamphlets from 
the experiment stations and agricultural 
departments. With all this material 
given away the average publisher will hes¬ 
itate to put capital into an expensive 
book unless he can be assured of a large 
sale. It must be very strong and original 
to compete with the free bulletins, except 
with a limited class of readers. When 
it comes to obtaining strong and living 
books at moderate cost the cooperative 
plan must be considered. In New York 
State travelling libraries can be obtained 
at reasonable cost. A few people can 
club together, make up a reasonable sum 
of money and start a library of their 
own—the books to be passed about from 
one family to another. I am glad to say 
that many agree with me that we must 
have a strong history of American farm¬ 
ing—not the dry bone of dates and facts, 
but a story in living—vital flesh and 
blood. 
Latin. —I did not realize that I was 
waking up both the living and the dead 
when I made those faltering remarks 
about the study of Latin. A dozen peo¬ 
ple are after me already. I think the 
subject is important enough to warrant 
a discussion. Here is a note from an old 
college friend: 
I note what you say on page 180 re¬ 
garding the study of Latin. You and I 
were students at the same agricultural 
college. Teaching was thrust upon me, 
and I taught until 1898, about 19 years. 
I finally had a family of teachers num¬ 
bering 150, in a city of 30,000 people. 
Of course we had Latin, and all the Eng¬ 
lish students took word analysis; and 
in six months’ time were able to give a 
better analysis of words in the English 
language than those students who had 
four years of Latin. Get Swiuton’s 
Word Analysis, be seated in your arm 
chair with a bright fire, and with that 
word analysis in a single evening you 
will get as good a knowledge of Latin and 
Greek and Hebrew as your daughter will 
get in two months’ work on her Latin. 
The Latin reader is too long; word an¬ 
alysis goes right to the spot. 
W. T. LANGLEY. 
Mr. Langley is giving an old timer 
something of a job to keep up with one 
of our modern young college sprouts, but 
the book he mentions is certainly O. K. 
ii. w. c. 
Old Gentleman (who has just fin¬ 
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with a loss of passengers and all hands) : 
“Ha! I am sorry for the poor sailors 
that were drowned.” Old Lady: “Sail¬ 
ors ! It isn’t the sailors; it’s the pas¬ 
sengers I am sorry for. The sailors are 
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